A man escaped unharmed after a car crashed into a tree and flipped onto its side.

Shortly after 9am today (February 20) firefighters were called to Castelnau in Barnes.

The man had escaped from his car by the time the rescue crews arrived.

A spokesman for the London Fire Brigade (LFB) said: “A car flipped onto its side after a collision with a tree in Castelnau, in Barnes.

“We were called at 9.09am this morning. One man had left the vehicle when we arrived. He was uninjured.

“It was all over for us at 9.34am.”